Another good example of how the “statistical” nature of LLMs distort the world. Undoing centuries of social progress one bias (network gravity well) at a time.
Indeed, women are "less salient" in a men dominated world.
Just note that less salient stimuli extinguish more slowly.
Esther Mondragón
Interestingly, the models themselves offer pseudo-mathematical explanations for this effect, claiming that women authors are simply “less salient.”
